Lineage Pride Quotes

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

I like to honor my West African and Taino ancestry, I consider it sacred and divine.

I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.

I'm very proud of my heritage and the blood that runs through my veins. I take a lot of strength from that.

I'm proud of my hands; they look like my grandma's.

I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours.

To me, it felt that if I give up my name, I am also sending a message to my children, saying my name was not important enough as your father's; I am not as important as your father. That is a message we are passing down generation after generation without realising.

My family's lineage, we are warriors. The McGregor clan, we are warriors all through. We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that's stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have.

He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.